Mom Quotes

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso."

"My mother thinks I am the best. And I was raised to always believe what my mother tells me."

"When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child."

"The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness."

"Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me."

"The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children."

"My mother taught me to treat a lady respectfully."

"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

"My mother used to tell me man gives the award, God gives the reward. I don't need another plaque."

"How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names."

"It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding."

"Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves."

"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

"When your mother asks, 'Do you want a piece of advice?' it is a mere formality. It doesn't matter if you answer yes or no. You're going to get it anyway."

"Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children."

"My mom told me I could do anything I want, be anyone I want. I believed it. And so I want my daughters to as well."

"My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."

"The mother's heart is the child's schoolroom."

"My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids."

"My mom is the most positive person. She has always had a smile on her face no matter what came her way. After seeing that, I'm not going to let a little cellulite get in the way of my happiness!"

"My dad was a professional basketball player, and my mom was a hell of a tennis player."

"There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep."

"Growing up watching WWE, they used to have bra-and-panties matches or pillow fights, and that's why my mom didn't want me to watch wrestling. But when my parents divorced, I was able to watch wrestling again, and that's when I started to really get into wrestlers like Ivory."

"Fereydun, that's my dad's name. My grandmother, my dad's mom, when she was pregnant, she was dating a man from Persia, a Persian gentleman. It wasn't his child, but he was still very supportive and said, 'Hey, this is a great name,' and so it stuck. So that's what she named him."

"Even though I grew up in America, at home we spoke mostly Chinese, because my mom is from Taiwan."

"Everything I am is because of my mom."

"My mom was the strongest woman I know."

"My mom is actually a former prima ballerina, and all the women in my family are associated either with dance or choreography or acting, so I'm very lucky in a way because I grew up in a family of artists. I've been dancing since I was a little kid."

"Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up."

"I am truly my mother's son."

"For years, my mom dated a man who was really active in the Baptist church in the town next to the town I grew up in, and so he used to drag me to these Baptist church services that lasted forever. I remember that I didn't like the church services, but I really liked the music."

"My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this appreciation for different cultures. -Yahya Abdul"

"My dad said, 'Stay humble, and you gotta work harder than everybody else.' My mom said, 'Always be yourself.' She always told me only God can judge me."